Nature Based Art
Welcome to my world of nature and art. My work has moved from creating public art into emerging myself into nature and teaching people my way of working and helping them to find their own style and method of seeing and recording nature.
A typical spread from one of my nature journals.
My own work is personal - creating nature journals from observations - but also adding my own feelings and thoughts - sometimes poetry, lyrics and quotations, both original and found - into my journals. My aim is really just to notice nature and the beauty of the natural world speaks for itself.
So much nature to encounter and unfold.
My journals are continuous and record a journey - usually with my dog, Jess - which when I look back at them offer not only a useful scientific record but also a visual and immersive prompt. When teaching journalling I provide a background, as well as all of the materials needed to create a beautiful little journal and help to tease out the unique voice and style of drawing that is innate in everyone.
An example of the simple “chapbook Journal” I use when teaching Journalling.
Testimonial
On a personal note, I’d like to say that the workshop was very impactful for me. As I try my hand with watercolors and revisit drawing after an absence of many years, I’ve had trouble finding a comfortable format in which to work. The idea of small, scattered images and engaging with drawing/painting as a process of recording is a huge paradigm shift!
It removes the pressure of creating a finished image, all rendered to the highest degree and presented in a rectangular, frame-able format. Very freeing.
